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Not even the least bit ashamed of the hypocrisy and bull shit. Now off to the hearings to play Election Year Politics Bingo!! Via.
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HEH! I may not agree with her all the time, but you have to admit it’s pretty sweet how she turns exactly what they think will exonerate them into that which condemns them. Non foreign state provacateurs? That’s called treason. Believe it or not, via CNS.
Bin Laden won’t be able to attend the hearing. He sends his regrets:
(CNN)-House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King will hold a hearing on how the death of Osama bin Laden impacts homeland security in one week, according to written statement on his website.
King wants details, details, details, he wants to understand the consequences and benefits resulting from Bin Laden’s death, and he wants to focus on “the security of our homeland”.
Okay, Peter? Do us all a favor and stop calling it “our homeland”. It’s creepy and BushCo-y and not American-y. And just to be fair and balanced, I cringed when President Obama said it, too.
As for King’s previous hearings:
He drew heavy criticism from the Muslim community in early March for holding hearings on the radicalization of Muslim Americans.
See? He’s a professional hearing-holder. Too bad he’s also a divisive alarmist.
Witnesses will include Peter Bergen and Frances Townsend, and terrorism analyst Evan F. Kohlman.
Today’s L.A. Times letters to the editor, Part One, because our voices matter:
Terror and religion
Re “America’s loyalty dance,” Opinion, March 7
When I teach the very controversial subject matter of religion and violence to my UCLA students, I urge them to “analyze, not moralize.” How I wish Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) had enrolled in my course.
He would learn that perceived persecution increases any group’s extremism, as it did with 19th century Mormons. He would also learn that the first and most frequent victims of religious extremists are their fellow believers.
Finally, he would learn that singling out one religious minority risks stigmatizing the entire group and producing a backlash of young members who seek to “save” their people by becoming misguided “heroes.” Such behavior is documented among any religious minority.
If we really want to reduce incidents of holy terror, we might begin by studying previous cases that have occurred in Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism, and noting what all terrorist movements have in common.
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King says that his hearings interrogating American Muslims will be honest and fair. That might be difficult since the hearings themselves are dishonest and unfair.
Let the games begin!!
Right Turn has obtained the first oversight letter from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued to the Justice Department. While he was in the minority, Smith labored, largely unsuccessfully, on the committee to convince the Democratic chairman to investigate a range of issues, including detainee policy and New Black Panther Party case. He now has the authority to schedule hearings, call witnesses and subpoena documents.
In a five-page letter, Smith notes that there has been “little oversight” as to how the civil rights division has used its budget increases ($22 million in FYI 2010 and $17 million requested in FYI 2011) and why the need for some 164 new positions.
He then gets to the heart of the matter. As I and other outlets have reported, he notes that in the New Black Panther Party case investigation, it came to light that a political appointee, Julie Fernandes, directed Justice Department attorneys “not to bring cases against black defendants for the benefit of white victims.”Smith then details allegations by former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams that the department declined to enforce the National Voter Registration Act and its provisions relating to “voter integrity.”
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